View allAll Photos Tagged sunra
I'm not sure who took this, and would like to attribute it properly.
Sun Ra was one of my all time favorite weird people, and a Jazz genius who said many strange and puzzling things and wrote challenging and evocative music. His music from the 60s is some of the most exciting of the "new thing" Jazz.
Sunday afternoon In Milan...
--
Funkadelic - I Got A Thing... George Clinton, epic.. :)
--
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkadelic - See also 'Bootsy's Rubber band'...
When I was in high school the older brother of a classmate of mine introduced me to The Fugs, Captain Beefheart, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra. I didn't like any of it. It all sounded like noise to me. But, still, I couldn't get the sounds out of my head. After reading a cover story in Rolling Stone (then printed on newsprint), I bought Capt. Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica." It mostly sat at the bottom of a drawer. But every month or so I'd pull it out and try it again. There was something about it that appealed to me, even while another part of me was saying that it was all wrong. Within a year or two I loved the album.
Even though I was already a jazz fan, I had a harder time with Sun Ra. I think that may have been because his recorded output is so spotty. It wasn't until I started seeing the Arkestra live that my admiration really soared.
During the seventies and eighties I saw the band perform many, many times -- in East Lansing, Michigan (where i grew up), in Detroit, in Toronto, in Ann Arbor, in Chicago, and in Boston.
Recently I discovered that reed player Marshall Allen, who first joined Ra back in the 1950s, was born here in Louisville (my new home). With that in mind, I dug out my old negatives from the 1970s and scanned this nice image of him and Danny Davis.
SUN RA ARKESTRA feat. MARSHALL ALLEN - 13.06.2014 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - www.jazzit.at - weitere Fotos unter: www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos14/sun_ra_arkestra/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Marshall Allen: cond, sax, fl
Tara Middleton: voc
Cecil Brooks: tp
Vincent Chancey: flgh
Knoel Scott: voc, sax, dance
James Stuart: sax
Danny Ray Thompson: sax
Dave Davis: tb
Farid Barron: p
Dave Hotep: e-g
Stanley Morgan: perc
Elson Nascimento: perc, surdo
Tyler Mitchell: b
Wayne Anthony Smith Jr.: dr
VIDEOS:
SUN RA ARKESTRA feat. MARSHALL ALLEN - 13.06.2014 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - www.jazzit.at - weitere Fotos unter: www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos14/sun_ra_arkestra/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Marshall Allen: cond, sax, fl
Tara Middleton: voc
Cecil Brooks: tp
Vincent Chancey: flgh
Knoel Scott: voc, sax, dance
James Stuart: sax
Danny Ray Thompson: sax
Dave Davis: tb
Farid Barron: p
Dave Hotep: e-g
Stanley Morgan: perc
Elson Nascimento: perc, surdo
Tyler Mitchell: b
Wayne Anthony Smith Jr.: dr
VIDEOS:
Nicole Mitchell of the David Boykin Expanse plays at today’s Sun Ra Symposium at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Sun Ra Arkestra at Trinumeral Festival Photos - 999 - At Deerfields in Horseshoe, NC - © 2009 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Concert Photography
"Sun Ra and his Omniverse Arkestra will be appearing at the Old Waldorf in S.F. on Friday November 20. Opening the show, after their forceful performance at the KJAZ Festival, will be United Front." -- caption
SUN RA ARKESTRA feat. MARSHALL ALLEN - 13.06.2014 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - www.jazzit.at - weitere Fotos unter: www.jazzfoto.at/konzertfotos14/sun_ra_arkestra/Index.htm
Besetzung:
Marshall Allen: cond, sax, fl
Tara Middleton: voc
Cecil Brooks: tp
Vincent Chancey: flgh
Knoel Scott: voc, sax, dance
James Stuart: sax
Danny Ray Thompson: sax
Dave Davis: tb
Farid Barron: p
Dave Hotep: e-g
Stanley Morgan: perc
Elson Nascimento: perc, surdo
Tyler Mitchell: b
Wayne Anthony Smith Jr.: dr
VIDEOS: